Happy 6th Birthday Katelynn!!

We had a fun family party after the kids's Christmas program! Katelynn requested Taco in a bag and blueberry dessert!!

Weekend of Christmas's

two turkeys after the christmas program. They both sang very well, as did Katelynn. The boys started nudging each other towards the end.....time to be done!

Christmas #1

Austin had the stomach flu, so Katelynn and I took off for Bertha and Perham for some family Christmas's! First stop Great Gpa and Gma Truax's with Daddy's family!

Eli had some great actions to the songs during carolling!

Katelynn and Zach read the sheet music and sang every word!

We made 3 carolling stops. It has become a tradition at the Truax Christmas! We went to nursing home, a home, and an apartment!

Katelynn enjoyed having Brooklyn to play Barbie's with!

Great Grandma Mona is always busy making wonderful gifts for everybody!

Katelynn and Brady with their new Twins gear!

Christmas #2!!

After Bertha, Katelynn and I drove back to Perham for Christmas at my Gma Lila's. (by the way we drove to Perham with my parents and I took my Dad's truck to Bertha! I loved it!)

Katelynn and Papa! Katelynn and Kellan

We had a great day with family! I am glad Katelynn and I could be a part of it!

Congratulations Rachel!!

Rachel graduated with her Masters from NDSU and walked through the ceremony on Friday. We had a nice dinner at Mexican Village after! We are proud of you, Rachel!!

Austin was Joseph in his preschool Christmas program!!

Birthday Bowling!!

Katelynn invited a few friends from school to go bowling for her birthday!! They had a fun time! We had pizza and cupcakes and a few frames of bowling!!
Thank goodness for the ramp and the bumpers!!

Austin had the most fun out of all of us!! Craig and him bowled a whole game! Austin loved helping everybody get their ball and get it on the ramp!

The girls took a few turns without the ramp...it was interesting!

Got a little winter fun in before it got cold again!!

Oh Austin.....

You would have thought he was the one up early for Black Friday!! (I was shopping at 4 am with my mom and dad! My mom was up at 3 am! For some reason, this has become one of my Dad's favorite things.....hauling us girls around to all the stores!! We missed Rachel this year as she was in Montevideo!)I brought back a pack of silly rings for Katelynn from my shopping trip to St. Cloud...I had to go get a pack for Austin yesterday! He has spent HOURS playing with these!!

ps....the other day I was scolding him...he said "you can't be mad at me....just look at my face, and smiled!! He's right!

12 inches of snow.....I guess winter has arrived!

This picture makes me laugh...almost a week later most of it is still on there!!

Trick or Treating

Batgirl and Robin

We had pumpkin pizza again this year and then headed out around our neighborhood. Each year it seems like we make it a little longer and get more candy!! The kids even liked handing out candy back at our house!!

Halloween Party!!!

We had a kids halloween party the day before Halloween! Treats, crafts, pinata, and lots of cute costumes! I am definitely not a master in the kitchen, but tried to make some fun treats!

Witch Cupcakes
Skeleton Brain Dip
Pumpkin Cheeseball

(stolen from Heidi).....Making Masks

(stolen from Heidi's blog)..Glad Heidi got a picture of the pinata! It turned out to be really fun! (besides Zachary hurting his hand!)

Joe Mauer, Batgirl, and Robin showed up at the party!

What a crew!!

Our annual Pumpkin carving with PAPA!!

Katelynn "designed" her and Austin's pumpkin faces on paper this year, and then helped draw them out on the pumpkin!

The kids didn't like the goop in the middle this year....so Papa and Mommy did most of the work!

The weather is still pretty nice for October football games!

Katelynn is hooked on these books.....I have made more trips to Barnes & Noble in the last couple weeks than I have since we've moved to Moorhead! It is a series of 7 chapter books and we went to pick up #6 tonight as they had to order it for us....and guess what? There are many more sets in the series!! (hopefully I can find USED books on amazon!)

I kind of laughed at all this stuff on my counter because it kind of summarized what we did this weekend...(ok, so I added the domino because that was a fun part of our weekend!)

1. Pumpkin-Katelynn went on her first field trip! She was so excited to ride the bus! They went to the pumpkin patch. Craig went with as a chaperone and was very glad there were more Dads there than Moms!!

2. Domino- Heidi and Joel grilled for us Friday for supper! We layed the kids down to fall asleep so we could play Dominoes! It was really fun! We put the sleeping kids in the car at midnight and went home! It was a new adventure!

3. Flowers-The kids helped me clean out some of my flower beds for winter! I had to leave a few things in the front because they are still blooming!! This crazy weather! I chopped down some of my lilies in July and they grew back full and bloomed again!

4. Book-Got some reading done and I love this book so far!

5. Wine-Drank some wine with our saturday night supper after we spent some time at the Cobber football game! Katelynn and I went for the first half (she got hot so we left), Austin and Craig went for the second half after his much needed nap!

A beautiful sunset saturday night....it felt like summer when I stepped outside to take the picture, then I noticed it was 6:30 when the sun was setting and realized it wasn't summer any more!!

Has it really been 10 years?? Wow!

We had a great homecoming weekend...lots of laughs!

We had beautiful weather for the parade this year....the kids got a lot of candy!!

Gpa Steve and Gma Connie were at the football game. They provided entertainment and dilly bars!

411 Rocks!! Out for a drink at Stella's.....my new favorite place!

Our landlord for 411 was at the Hodo! He seemed to remember a few crazy stories about us!

Fall Festival

One of my favorite times of the year...the fall festival! It started out cool and cloudy which was okay because it wasn't so busy and crazy at the festival...however, it turned out to be an absolutely GORGEOUS fall day! I love this time of year!! The kids and I had a great time at the park this afternoon....and tonight we are settling in to watch college football, the twins game, and the "Big Time Rush" season premiere!

It took Austin a couple times watching his sister and cousin before he wanted a turn...then it was his favorite part!

We enjoyed a lot of games, rides, and crafts!